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Word: wind (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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LAST Saturday was as unfavorable a day for good records as could well have happened; but, in spite of the biting wind and clouds of dust, there was a good-sized audience on Jarvis Field, and the sports were fairly interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHLETIC MEETING. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...night-wind rustled through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVERIE. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...while I know thee light as wind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RONDEAU. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

MIST.FOAM of the wind-waves, lightly driven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUATRAINS. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...oarsmen were widely different. Goddard with his 14-inch slide pulled a clean and powerful stroke, while he kept his shell on a perfectly even keel. Livingstone's boat rolled, and he had a trick of bending himself up at the catch which was enough to take the wind out of any man. The Yale man looked plump and well-fed, but had evidently had very little of that training which gave the Harvard man his fine and clean-cut figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SINGLE-SCULL RACE. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

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